{"id":10692,"date":"2011-01-31T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10692"},"modified":"2011-01-31T18:19:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:19:42","slug":"john-barry-1933-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/01\/31\/john-barry-1933-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"John Barry (1933-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/2834\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10693\" title=\"John Barry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/John-Barry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Composer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Barry_(composer)\">John Barry<\/a><\/strong> has died in New York of a heart attack aged 77.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best-known composers of soundtrack music since the 1960s, he worked on several James Bond films, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Born_Free\">Born Free<\/a> (1966), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lion_in_Winter_(1968_film)\">The Lion in Winter<\/a> (1968), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midnight_Cowboy\">Midnight Cowboy<\/a> (1969), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Out_of_Africa_(film)\">Out of Africa<\/a> (1985) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dances_With_Wolves\">Dances With Wolves<\/a> (1990).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WP8toLs7oic\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The winner of five Academy Awards, he also received a BAFTA fellowship award in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>For the Bond franchise, it was his arrangement of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_bond_theme\">Monty Norman&#8217;s iconic theme<\/a> that led to him working on the scores for 11 films in the series, including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goldfinger_(film)\">Goldfinger<\/a> (1964) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)\">You Only Live Twice<\/a> (1968).<\/p>\n<p>Part of his signature style was the use of strings, orchestral swells and distinctive melodies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xYQ7dxwRkUM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He also wrote for television and among his most notable work in the medium included themes for Juke Box Jury and The Persuaders.<\/p>\n<p>Barry, who lived in Long Island, is survived by his wife Laurie and four children and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Barry_(composer)\">John Barry<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/notebook\/posts\/2834\">More links on John Barry<\/a> at MUBi<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-12324487\">BBC News audio slideshow of John Barry&#8217;s music<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive\/james_bond\/12612.shtml\">1995 BBC programme on the Bond themes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer John Barry has died in New York of a heart attack aged 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,2],"tags":[317,1818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}